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LACROIX, See also:ANTOINE See also:FRANCOIS See also:ALFRED (1863— ) , See also:French mineralogist and geologist, was See also:born at See also:Macon, See also:Saone et See also:Loire, on the 4th of See also:February 1863. He took the degree of D. es Sc. in See also:Paris, 1889. In 1893 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:mineralogy at the Jardin See also:des Plantes, Paris, and in 1896 director of the mineralogical laboratory in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. He paid especial See also:attention to minerals connected with volcanic phenomena and igneous rocks, to the effects of See also:metamorphism, and to See also:mineral See also:veins, in various parts of the See also:world, notably in the See also:Pyrenees. In his numerous contributions to scientific See also:journals he dealt with the mineralogy and See also:petrology of See also:Madagascar, and published an elaborate and exhaustive See also:volume on the eruptions in See also:Martinique, La Montagne Pelee et ses eruptions (1904). He also issued an important See also:work entitled Mineralogie de la See also:France et de ses Colonies (1893—1898), and other See also:works in See also:conjunction with A. See also:Michel See also:Levy. He was elected member of the See also:Academic des sciences in 1904.

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